Stove or range.



No. 737,546. EATENTED AUG. 25, 1903. J. N. YOUNG.

' STOVE 0R RANGE.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 18, 1902.

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Fatented August 25, 1901 PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN N. YOUNG, OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA.

STOVE OR RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,546, dated August 25, 1903.

Application filed November 13, 1902. Serial No. 131,243. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN N. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 2128 Alameda avenue, Alameda, county of Alameda, State of Oalifornia,(whose post-office and business address is No. 723 Market street, room 21, Bancroft-History Building, San Francisco, California) have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves or Ranges, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and'to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in cooking or kitchen stoves and ranges.

The principal features of my invention are a cooking stove or range having a low firebox, an elevated oven, an extra chamber which may be used as a cooking-inclosure, a ventilating-chamber, or as an additional firechamber; also, flues leading directly from the low fire-box both over and under the raised oven to the pipe or chimney flue; dampers.

lids and divide or center piece and extend ing near to the outer edges being removable; an adjustable grate and an adjustable broiler for use at the top of the lower fire-box, the top of the ventilating-chamber, including lids and divide or center piece, being likewise removable, and all of the parts of this chamber being detachable and when desirable may be dispensed with. I'attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stove or range constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

The various parts of Fig. 1 will be understood by a reference to Fig. 2.

In Fig. 2, A is a fire-box. A is a grate in the bottom of tire-box A. B is the oven. Bis an uprise flue leading from the fire-box A and passing in front of the oven B. B is a horizontal continuation of the flue B over the oven B and extending to the pipe or chimney outlet B B is a horizontal flue under the oven B, leading from the fire-box A. B is a vertical continuation of B leading in the rear of the oven to the pipe or chimney out- B is the stove or range pipe or chimlet B ney flue or outlet. B is a shelf in the oven B. O is a damper in the flue B. O is a damper in the flue B 0 is a damperin the chamber E. D D D are the ratehets attached to the dampers O, Oand O and D'D D are the pawls conmeeting with each of thesaid ratchets. The use of the ratchet and pawl, however, is not exclusive; but any convenient device may be employed for manipulating said dampers, or a handle alone may in most cases be sufficient. E is an extra chamber, which may be used either as an auxiliary oven, a cookinginclosure, a ventilating-chamber, or as an additional fire-chamber. E is a front door to the same. This door has the usual adjustable dampers, one near the top, the other near the bottom. E is an adjustable grate bar or broiler between the chamber E and the fire-box A when the top of fire-box A has been removed. E is the detachable frame of the chamber E. Eare bolts securely fas tening the frame E to the top of the firebox A and in front of the remaining portion of the stove, flush with the top thereof. E is the removable top of the chamber E. E is the latch to E. E is a detent-lug on E. E shows horizontal position of E dropped down from the top and serving the purpose of a shelf. E is an end door to the chamber E; F, draft-inlet (adjustable) for fire-box A; F, draft-inlet (adjustable) for E and fire-box A; G, cinder-grate bars in ash-pit H; H, ashpit; 1, warming-oven. I is ashelf in I. J is a partition-plate dividing the heat and flame as they leave the fire-box A and enter flues B and B or either thereof. This partition,- plate J is extended upward along the lower front part of the oven B and proteetsit from the concentrated heat at that point. The usual lining K is shown in the fire-box A. X is the stove or range support.

By this my improvement the fire-box A being placed low in the stove or range gives an opportunity to conduct the heat and flames directly from the fire-box A to all sides of the oven B through the flues B B B B and by means of the dampers C and C the heat and flames may be divided equally or be sent in unequal portions into and along these flues, or they may be sent entirely through E or B or may be withdrawn from both and sent along the top of the stove through the chamber E and through the open damper C the operator being thus enabled to aifect the temperatu re of the oven at will. I also effect the further desirable object of having the heat and flames travel in direct horizontal and uprising lines in all of their uses.

The partition-plate J, among other things, divides the heat and flames in the fire-box A and prevents the drafts through the flues B and B from affecting or neutralizing each other;

The dampers O C O are operated conveniently by the pawl and ratchets D and D.- These may be dispensed with and a simple handle or any other suitable device may be .used to operate these dampers.

The chamber E may be used to inclose cooking utensils employed for cooking or other purposes on the top of that part of the stove or range forming the top part of the fire-box A, which top part has the lids and divide usually found at this place in stoves and ranges. As hereinbefore stated, the greater portion of all of this top part over the fire-boXA may be removed, carrying with it the said lids and divide, thus opening nearly all such top for the passage of the heat and flames through the chamber E and the damper 0 when desired. When this top has been removed or the lids and divide or center piece have been removed, a grate E may be set in and a fire may be maintained thereon and within the chamber E when desirable, or instead of a grate a ,broiling-iron may be placed in the opening, as shown at E when by means of the flues B and B or either of them and the dampers O and 0 the smoke and flames may be diverted from the broiler E and any food thereon exposed to the direct rays of the heat from the fire-box A may be cooked or acted upon without being smoked or burned by the flames. This is especially desirable when oil is used as a fuel. When food or other substances in the chamber E are being'cooked or acted upon by the fire from the fire-boX A, any smoke, steam, or effluvium arising therefrom passes out through the open damper G into the flues B B and thence out of the pipe or range. The front door E and the end doors E being open and the top E being removed leaves only the narrow frame E of the chamber E standing, and this when desired may be removed by loosening the nuts E Slight alterationsin construction may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention and improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A stove or range provided with a low fire-box, an elevated oven with one lower corner adjacent to the middle of the fire-box outlet and there provided with a partition dividing the said fire-box outlet, a vertical flue in front of the oven, a similar flue in rear thereof, upper and lower horizontal flues along the oven, and dampers above and below the said partition.

2. A stove or range having a low fire-box, an elevated oven, suitable flues and dampers, one flue being in front of the oven above the fire-box, and a supplemental chamber resting on top of the fire-box and communicating at its upper rear portion with the upper end of the said front oven-flue, a damper controlling said communication, and a grid-like device between the chamber and the fire-box.

' '3. A stove or range having a low fire-box, an elevated oven, suitable flues and dampers, one flue being in front of the oven and above the fire-box and having a dampered opening 'through its front wall, a supplemental removable chamber resting on the open top of the fire-box and comprising a skeleton frame open at the bottom, and at the said upper damper and having a downwardly-swinging front door provided at its lower hinged edge with detents or stops to hold it securely when swung down to form a shelf.

4. A stove or range provided with a low fire-box, having removable top pieces, an elevated oven, a vertical flue in front of the oven, communicating at its lower end with the fire-box and having a dampered opening in the upper end of the front wall, upper and lower horizontal flues and a rear vertical flue for the oven, dampers in the lower end of the front vertical flue and in the front end of the lower horizontal flue, a warming-chamber under the said lower flue and a supplemental chamber on top of the fire-boxand opening into the oven-flue through said upper damper.

JOHN N. YOUNG. \Vitnesses:

MARION S. BLANOHARD, WM; H. YOUNG. 

